Your studio.Your team.Your control.

I'm Sylvan Brander. I turn unused rooms and existing facilities into professional media studios your own team can operate — designed, installed, integrated, tested, documented, and handed off.

From a one-person content room to a 55-person hybrid training facility. The system gets designed around what your business needs to accomplish, not around a pile of equipment.

Miami, FL · Available worldwide with travel covered

Tell me about your roomSee the process
01 · What I actually sell

Ownership, capability, independence

An AV installer can leave you with $150,000 of beautiful equipment nobody knows how to operate. That is not the job.

I make sure the studio works, train your team to run it, document the system, and stay through the first real productions until it functions without me. The finish line isn't the camera turning on. It's your team using the room successfully when I'm not in it.

The job isn't finished when the studio works. The job is finished when the client knows how to make it work.

02 · Four layers to every build
Layer 01

Strategy

Not "what cameras do you want." What needs to happen inside this room, how often, for how many people, and who has to run it.

Layer 02

Infrastructure

Cameras, lighting, audio, displays, networking, control, recording, streaming, computers, software, acoustics, furniture, cable.

Layer 03

Operations

Integration, configuration, tested signal paths, startup and shutdown procedures, workflows, SOPs, troubleshooting.

Layer 04

Independence

Operator training, documentation, handoff. I build studios I'm designed to eventually leave.

03 · The process
Pit → Peak → Path → Handoff14 stages
01—03Diagnose
Identify the pit — current costs, workflow, limitations, equipment, staff.
Define the peak, then audit what exists. Keep, repurpose, replace.
04—05Architect
Room layout, signal flow, control architecture, procurement list.
Plan the transition so nothing that has to stay live goes dark.
06—07Build & prove
Install, cable, configure, integrate every system into one environment.
Test each component and each full signal path. Mock Zooms, recordings, streams.
08—10Train & launch
Teach startup, shutdown, operation, and how to trace a failure through the chain.
Your operator runs the first real production. I log every issue, then stabilize and refine.
11—14Document & hand off
SOPs, troubleshooting guide, signal-flow docs, inventory, known quirks.
Ownership transfers. Then limited support, health checks, and expansion as you grow.

Every build is scoped to the room and the team. Rates on inquiry.

04 · Case study — Wake Up Warrior

Eighteen months refining the process

I spent the last full 18 months building a $60–75k studio for Wake Up Warrior, under the mentorship of Garrett J. White.

That time didn't go into one room. It went into the method — how to read a space, what to decide in which order, and what a system has to survive when it gets used every day by people who are not engineers. The room was the proof. The process is what I bring to the next one.

The Warrior facility: a hybrid media and event studio built for roughly 55 people.

The pit

Warrior depended on outside production infrastructure — a 45-to-60-minute drive each way, thousands a week in studio rental, and waiting on someone else to hand back their own footage.

The peak

Garrett didn't ask for six cameras and SDI routing. He said he wanted 50 people in the space, to walk anywhere in the room, and for everyone to see and hear him from anywhere in it.

The path

A hybrid media and event facility for roughly 55 people: multi-camera coverage, ceiling displays, room-wide audio, wireless and handheld mics, six lav channels, live switching, recording, presentation playback, Zoom integration, podcast production, and centralized control — with a reduced-capability temporary system keeping the business live through the move from Dana Point.

The result

Warrior can train, film, broadcast, podcast, and host events out of its own headquarters, run by its internal team — including full events a one-person operator can handle.

05 · It scales
Solo creatorWalk into the room, press a few buttons, record professional video without thinking about the technology.
Executive officeTake a Zoom call, record a podcast, or film an announcement thirty feet from your desk and always look and sound excellent.
In-house media teamProduce content every day without renting studios or rebuilding the setup each time.
Training facilityHost 50 in the room and hundreds remotely, capture all of it, distribute video through the space, and have one operator run the production.
06 · What people say
“If i lost $600,000 running the whole man in the arena tour just to find you... it will have been worth it.”
— Garrett J. White
“You do powerful shit brother”
— Cameron Christner
07 · Start an inquiry

Tell me about the space

A few sentences is plenty — what the room is, what you want to be able to make in it, and what’s costing you today. A photo or floor plan helps. I’ll reply with what I’d do and what it would take.

Or write directly: [email protected]